Hi Kartik & Tobias, 1/ as for building strawberry perl binaries: - I use MSYS shell + gcc included in straberry perl - it builds fine without any patching simply by running: ./configure && make
it seems like DirectX headers included in strawberry's gcc (I am using the latest 5.16.2) play well with SDL2
checking d3d9.h usability... yes checking d3d9.h presence... yes checking for d3d9.h... yes checking ddraw.h usability... yes checking ddraw.h presence... yes checking for ddraw.h... yes checking dsound.h usability... yes checking dsound.h presence... yes checking for dsound.h... yes checking dinput.h usability... yes checking dinput.h presence... yes checking for dinput.h... yes 2/ as for Alien::SDL2 what libraries do we want to include? how does SLD2 work with SDL_gfx, SDL_mixer, ... ? are they still needed? what I want to avoid (if possible) is SDL_Pango (huge GTK dependency chain) -- kmx
